Giles Clarke is set for a grilling over the controversial reforms of the International Cricket Council by the former England captain Mike Brearley and the rest of the MCC’s world cricket committee at Lord’s next week.

Clarke, the chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board who has been the most vocal advocate of the reforms, has been invited to “present on the restructure” with Dave Richardson, the ICC chief executive who is a member of the committee, and Ehsan Mani, the former ICC president who has been strongly critical of them.

The committee will then “have the opportunity to put questions to them”. Brearley, who became chairman of the MCC’s world cricket committee in 2012, has already made his views on the reforms clear in a lengthy article which appeared in the Times in February in which he described them as “morally wrong”.

Clarke and Richardson may have their work cut out in explaining the motivation behind the concentration of power, and money, in the hands of England, Australia and especially India – as well as the scrapping of the World Test Championship that was due to be held in England in 2017, and the election of India’s Narayanaswami Srinivasan as the ICC chairman.

The committee, which meets twice every year to discuss global cricketing issues but has no executive powers, also includes the former England captains Andrew Strauss and Michael Vaughan, the women’s captain, Charlotte Edwards, and Tim May, the former Australia off-spinner who was a trenchant critic of the ICC and cricket politics as the president of the Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations.

Other subjects to be discussed at the two-day meeting on Monday and Tuesday, before the second Test between England and India begins on Thursday, are the new International Women’s Championship which is due to start in England later this summer, day-night Tests with pink balls, and the state of cricket in Pakistan. Majid Khan, the former Pakistan captain, is to step down from the committee after this meeting, with the former Australia captain Steve Waugh, while the former India captain Sourav Ganguly is due to join.